We were delighted to sponsor, attend and contribute to this year’s Carers UK State of Caring Conference 2026. Lucy Wood updates us on the day here.
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Becky Driscoll provides an overview on the UK Government’s recent update on addressing the Independent Review of Carer’s Allowance Overpayments’s recommendations, and presents our new Research Briefing.
Read more about Accountability and action at last for unpaid carers with Carer’s Allowance overpayments? Complexity, vulnerability and harm in the welfare benefits system
The Centre for Care’s Impact Associate, Lucy Wood, provides a round up of our recent evidence submissions.
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Fragility across the care system: Baroness Casey speaks at Nuffield Trust summit.
We explore the issues raised during Baroness Casey’s speech at the Nuffield Trust summit on 5th March 2026.
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Seminar: Care as a Public Good and a Human Right: Latin America’s Transformative Care Agenda
Seminar recording now available! We virtually welcomed Professor Jennifer M. Piscopo, from the Royal Holloway University of London, to present ‘Care as a Public Good and a Human Right: Latin America’s Transformative Care Agenda’ on Tuesday 17th February 2026.
Read more about Seminar: Care as a Public Good and a Human Right: Latin America’s Transformative Care AgendaSeminar: Family and Group Conferencing for Adults – what it can offer for informal carers
Seminar recording now available! We welcomed Professor Jerry Tew and Dr. Philip Kinghorn from the University of Birmingham, to present ‘Family and Group Conferencing for Adults – what it can offer for informal carers’ on Tuesday 27th January 2026.
Read more about Seminar: Family and Group Conferencing for Adults – what it can offer for informal carersSeminar recording now available! We welcomed Dr. Nicola Brimblecombe to present ‘Care and Place: older people’s housing and communities and their social care needs, care use, and care costs’ on Tuesday 13th January 2026.
Read more about Seminar: Care and Place: older people’s housing and communities and their social care needs, care use, and care costsThe life course costs of caring: Understanding unpaid carers’ financial wellbeing over time
Dr. Maxine Watkins and Dr. Louise Overton report on the first study to apply subjective notions of financial wellbeing directly to the experience of care and caring and with an emphasis on capturing and understanding changes in carers’ financial lives over time.
Read more about The life course costs of caring: Understanding unpaid carers’ financial wellbeing over timeInvisible Again: Unpaid Carers and Disabled People are absent from the Autumn Budget
The Centre for Care and CHASM respond to the Autumn Budget 2025, highlighting the lack of mention for unpaid carers and disabled people.
Read more about Invisible Again: Unpaid Carers and Disabled People are absent from the Autumn BudgetBecky Driscoll and Kate Hamblin comment on the report from the Independent Review of Carer’s Allowance Overpayments inquiry and the Government’s response.
Read more about The Independent Review of Carer’s Allowance Overpayments: A Welcome Step Towards Wider Reform of Welfare Benefits for Carers60th Anniversary: Happy Birthday to Carers UK and to the global carers’ movement
Professor Sue Yeandle OBE looks back on the global carers’ movement on Carers UK’s 60th Anniversary.
Read more about 60th Anniversary: Happy Birthday to Carers UK and to the global carers’ movementHere we provide links to our recent key outputs around unpaid carers.
Read more about Carers Rights Day 2025: ‘Know your rights, use your rights’Unpaid carers share their stories of being affected by an outdated benefit system
Leanne and Alison share their stories of caring and being affected by Carer’s Allowance- a benefit in need of urgent reform.
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